So, I’ve been pretty busy over the last few days. I’ve been planning a conference that’s being held this coming Saturday at my school, and I’ve been trying to get a paper written for said conference. I thought I’d share a little bit of how I’ve been doing the research for it, so I took a few pictures of part of my notes.
The text in question is Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella Sonnet #5, and I’ll be presenting a new critical analysis of those 14 lines of poetry. Have a look:
Here’s the text, with some of my annotations. Yes, it’s just the little part, not anything around it.
Next is my trusty Moleskine notebook.
And finally, you can see the two together, to get an idea of what I do with textual analysis.
That’s pretty much it! Go check out my Flickr page to see those pictures and some extra explanation about them.
One more day! Whew! It’s been long, but I’m glad I’ve made it thus far!
Astrophil and Stella is a lot of fun. Sidney wrote it about me you know–even though most commentators claim “Astrophil” is a pun on Sidney’s name, I’m reasonably sure it is a prophetic pun on my own. I hope, however, that I’m wrong…
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While it could be a pun on his own name, it’s, first and foremost, the perfect name for a lover of “stella” or star. You know, “Starlover” loves Stella, a star.
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Your handwriting surprises me. I’m not sure why.
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Rachelskirts: Yeah, it’s functional. I can read it, but sometimes no one else can. That can be a problem.
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